Jan Daemen Cool

[1] In 1614, he was admitted into the Guild of St. Luke at Delft; but by 1618 he had returned to Rotterdam,[1] and in 1623 he married Lysbeth, the widow of the painter Lowys Percelles.

He influenced the painters Adam and Isaac Colonia and Ludolf de Jongh.

In 1652 the governors of the " Old Men's Home" at Rotterdam agreed to receive him into the institution on condition of his paying a sum of 1225 florins and painting a picture representing them assembled together.

The work, which he executed in accordance with the agreement, was the only one known to be by him when Michael Bryan was writing; and it had been shortly before that reattributed to him.

It is dated 1653, and represents 'Five Governors, clothed in black, ranged round a table.'